Irish Examiner view: Technology has turned into a two-faced friend

It will undoubtedly take a major and debilitating crisis within the State before we finally acknowledge that we have placed far too much faith in our networks and systems, and can muster the determination to break that dependency for good. However inconvenient it proves to be.

For some years now, challenging technological “progress” has been the modern heresy, with the new faith promulgated by prophets who emphasise what fresh technologies can do, while ignoring the impact and dangers of what they will undo.